Biografía
He was qualified as a Marine Engineer.
He served a three year apprenticeship in the Bartley & Dundall engine works in Montreal PQ.
He then worked with his father in the Hawksbury Mills.
He came to the Pacific Coast in 1862 at San Francisco.
He then went to Nevada and worked in the Gould & Curry stamp mill.
He then went to Puget Sound as a machinist in the Port Gamble Mills until enetering marine service on Puget Sound steamers.
He served in the Colfax, Goliah, Yakima, Blakely, S.L. Mastick all as Chief Engineer.
He arrived in Victoria in 1878 joining the steamer Western Slope as Chief Engineer on the Stickeen River then going to the steamer Gertrude.
He then served in the Cassiar, Grappler and Beaver.
In 1882 he returned to Seattle working in Williamson's Shop.
He joined the steamer Josephine until her boiler exploded and then ran the McNaught.
He was then Chief Engineer in the tug Etta White in BC waters.
Referencias
Wright, E.W. (ed.) (1895 reprinted 1967)
